Texas native James Farmer is one of the "Big Four" of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer's interpretation of Gandhi's concept of nonviolent protest. Born in Marshall, Texas, in 1920, the son of a preacher, Farmer grew up with segregated movie theaters and "White Only" drinking fountains. This background impelled him to found the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942. That same year he...
Texas native James Farmer is one of the "Big Four" of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and W...
Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will allow the reader to do their own design, improvement, and troubleshooting work. The objective is to enhance the skill sets of a large population that designs and builds broadband cable plants, as well as those maintaining and troubleshooting it. A large cross-section of technical personnel who need to learn these skills design, maintain, and service HFC systems from signal creation through transmission to reception and processing at the customer...
Broadband Cable Access Networks focuses on broadband distribution and systems architecture and concentrates on practical concepts that will all...
Taylor Hicks wrote a song not long ago called Do I Make You Proud? I didn't have to write these two books to make my Dad Proud of me. My dad is just proud that I am his son. If it had not been for my Dad then I wouldn't be who I am today. I don't have to do anything to make my dad proud of me because he is already proud of me. My dad was always there for me even when my family turned against me. He was there for me when nobody else was. I have a lot to be thankful for because my dad was always there to see me through. My dad was the one who guided me through the all of the bad times. My dad...
Taylor Hicks wrote a song not long ago called Do I Make You Proud? I didn't have to write these two books to make my Dad Proud of me. My dad is just p...
Nostalgic yet modernly apropos, Porch Living provides the venue of venues to grasp the goodness of both the home and garden. From the contemporary yet classically rooted outdoor fabrics and furnishings that make porches chic and cherished, to the hanging baskets and planters chock-full of seasonal delights, today's porches offer comfort and elegance, and, most importantly, an addition to the home and garden. Whether jettisoned boldly into parterres aplenty or delightfully diminutive, a grand outdoor salon or sleeping nook, the...
The happy space nestled betwixt nature and nest.
Nostalgic yet modernly apropos, Porch Living provides the venue of venues to grasp the g...
FTTX Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation provides an in-depth treatment of the technology and implementation of FTTX networks, discusses the environment that gave rise to FTTX, provides a survey of the available FTTX technologies, and gives users the state-of-the-art knowledge needed for successful deployment of FTTX.
The book includes hands-on project planning engineering design and operations checklists, as well as recommended best practices for configuring FTTH systems and the data networks preceding them for IPTV, voice, and data, with case studies of actual...
FTTX Networks: Technology Implementation and Operation provides an in-depth treatment of the technology and implementation of FTTX networks,...
